Theres no doubt President Obamas liberal supporters are worried by his lackluster performance in the Denver debate. Everyone is in shock, one show-business liberal told the Hollywood reporter. No one can understand what happened. The Obama faithful are offering the White House advice, talking points, pep talks  anything to improve the presidents performance when he next faces Mitt Romney at Hofstra University on October 16.

During the last debate, Barry gave me the impression that he knows that he is in over his head. Besides, he also knows the crappy economy he’ll “inherit” if he is reelected. It’s worse now than the one he “inherited” from Dubya.

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posted on 10/07/2012 10:40:54 AM PDT
by FlingWingFlyer
(Sorry Algore. It was attitude, NOT altitude.)

Of course he wants a second term.If he gets the boot he knows that OsamaObamaCare might go down in flames and he does *not* want that.If he gets four more he’ll just mail in the unconstitutional Executive Orders and spend the rest of the time on the links,secure in the knowledge that the Republicans won’t be able to do a damn thing about it and that he’ll be adored by many,here and overseas,for the rest of his sorry existence.

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posted on 10/07/2012 10:41:46 AM PDT
by Gay State Conservative
(Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)

He knows he can not please his handlers and deal with a Republican House and Senate. He knows the fixed books must be unfixed and the real problems revealed. He knows he has no clue as to how to solve the problem.

He probably knows that he has had more death threats than any living president.

After this past three years of total surrender to jihadists and economic ruin via debt/socialized medicine and welfare, the nation is in over it’s head, no matter who win’s the election, the damage is going to result in crisis for the US.

I hope Romney wins to get Obama and his commie Czars out. But I feel sorry for him if he “wins” the foreign and domestic disaster that is America today. It’s going to be painful in terms of foreign attacks and domestic hysterics.

He's been considered brilliant by libs/Dems/press his entire career including his first 2 years when he had Pelosi doing his dirty work. He's bored with no longer being considered a god. Convincing people your stupid ideas aren't...is hard work. He's never had to do that before. Even if he's reelected, he's likely looking at an even more hostile Congress. He just wants results, he doesn't want to actually work for them.

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posted on 10/07/2012 10:49:21 AM PDT
by Tex-Con-Man
(Muppet season now open - no bag limit)

It occurred to me some time ago, and only got reinforced during and after the debate, that Obama would be inheriting
FOUR years of failed Obama policies, rather than 8 years of failed Bush policies. Looking toward the future, I can see how dispiriting it must be for someone like him, to see himself over a period of a new 4 year term,defending himself
while dealing with all the nagging questions of
JUST WHY IT WAS that ALL his policies were continuing to plague the country.This is not a guy who is cut out for that kind of politics. It’s either throw in the towel, or risk having to become a literal demagogue that was willing to defend the growing unrest that would follow him around for four more years.As we already know, he’d rather play Celebrity President, and play golf and shoot hoops.’
We are witnessing the first phase of Obama throwing in the towel, and the next debates, between him and Romney, and between Ryan and Biden, are only going to accelerate that process.

Remember all those so-sophisticated libs who told us that he’s way too smart for this job? That he’s so far ahead of the rest of us in intelligence that he’s just bored by how slow the system is to react to his genius? This stupidity is just another iteration of that approach.

I will grant them this much, however - it is clear that *he* thinks he’s so much better than the peons he has to rule over. Unfortunately there are no openings among the Greek gods at the moment, so the poor lad has to settle for the task of POTUS, despite the fact that (in his mind) it’s so much below him.

I think Obama can actually feel the futility of converting America to a socialist nation. Even after purging his past, replacing nearly every high level position with someone who is either Moslem or a communist he is still trying to row upstream with half a paddle, he just keeps on making left hand circles.

Give it up now, walk away now to fight again another day? or push on through like a high speed caravan hitting a dense patch of fog on a turnpike?

I said awhile back that Obama doesn’t want another term - he wants money. He bought a big house in Hawaii and probably doesn’t give a hoot if he’s re-elected - he barely worked the last 4 years. He travels with a teleprompter for gods sake - how many people who work for a living travel with a teleprompter? He does want donors money - you don’t buy a $35M house on a community organizers salary.

I’m guessing all those billions to buddies who were campaign donors were kicked back, is some part, to Obama....

I’m sure these bill boards are probably all over the country, but I saw my first one the other day and almost drove off the road. It is a big pic of the Great One, mopping his brow and looking beat, and it says something about Poor Obama, if he gets reelected he’ll inherit such a mess!

Interesting speculation here in this piece. I was at a senior corporate management meeting for my company last month, and we had a general discussion about the election and its implications for our industry. My input was this: "Personally, I'm getting the impression that Mitt Romney is running for a job that Barack Obama doesn't even want anymore."

This was based largely on Obama's dull performance in his convention acceptance speech. His debate performance last week only reinforces this view of mine.

I can imagine what the last few months have been like in the White House.

Obama: "I don't want to do this anymore. Just let me go and play golf and run my fantasy football teams until January."

DNC Representative: "If you start acting that way in public, you're going to bring dozens of Democratic members of Congress down with you. You have to play the game until November, or else Democratic voters all over the place will stay home on Election Day. Pay no mind to the sacking of the U.S. consulate in Libya and the murder of the U.S. ambassador over there, dude ... you've got to get out to Las Vegas to raise money for this charade -- oops, I mean -- for the cause."

According to current thinking, reelection is the test of presidential adequacy and greatness. If you can't get reelected you're a failure. If you can get reelected -- and even get a successor of your own party elected afterwards -- you just might be a great president.

Obama didn't wholly accept that. His statement that he'd "rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president" reflects his disagreement. But official Washington and academia and public memory have come to associate success with reelection, so that's what Obama's trying for.

What Obama really wants at some deeper level is harder to say. Maybe he senses that the presidency hasn't really worked out for him, and some part of Obama doesn't want it. Maybe he feels in some semi-conscious way that he can't form a narrative of success out of his record. But that's not something he'd come out and say or even admit to himself.

It is my belief that Obama has higher aspirations. After all, the job of POTUS is beneath him but a necessary step to the next level. Obama wants to be the leader of the whole world in the coming NWO. He’s looking to take the reigns of the UN. Call me a religious nut, but I think Obama could be the Antichrist.

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posted on 10/07/2012 1:23:47 PM PDT
by SFRigger
(It may be about time to water the tree of liberty again.)

If Romney wins, he will be the nominee in 2016. Palin (or whoever else) will have to wait until 2020. For what it’s worth, Palin will still only be 56 years old in 2020 - seven years younger than Romney is today. So Palin has plenty of time. But based on my observations of her over the past year, I feel that she may be out of politics for good.

Pritzker has not lifted a finger to help with the 2012 campaign financing because shes in charge of leaning on large donors to fund both the Obamas post-presidential home and the Obama Presidential Library. If youve wondered why Pritzkers been absent from the Obama campaign team and why his fundraising has been so anemic, its because the wealthiest donors do not believe hes going to win a second term and are instead giving their campaign contributions to Mitt Romney so they can have some clout and favor with the incoming White House.

Besides, he also knows the crappy economy hell inherit if he is reelected.

If he gets re-elected, he doesn't care how bad the economy is or how bad it will get. He really hasn't cared that much about the economy the last 4 years ... only enough to try to get re-elected. The guy wants 4 more years to party on the taxpayer dime ... AF1, golf (right ... is that what he's REALLY doing?), keeping The Mooch happy with expensive vacays & shopping trips, etc.

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posted on 10/07/2012 3:12:58 PM PDT
by MissMagnolia
(Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))

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